31-month forward price of Richards Bay coal (USD/tonne) - South Africa - FSR - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Forward Richards Bay coal prices
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In international coal derivatives markets, the 31-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 121.304 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, versus 119.061 on 9 October. This represents an increase of 1.88 percent.
Sample. There are 3,856 records in the daily time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time range stretching from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Take a look at some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: the forward price had a mean of 93.310 USD/tonne; it reached its highest level of 292.816 on 5 September 2022; it reached its lowest level of 37.750 on 15 January 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 119.214 |
| 2026-10-09 | 119.061 |
| 2026-10-12 | 121.304 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 31-month forward price of Richards Bay coal |
| Country | South Africa |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Forward price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | USD/tonne |
| Source | FetchSeries Research; calculations on market data |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LD1 |
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